I have an adult pair of Western hognoses and am purchasing a tri-coloured male in a couple of weeks.
Does anyone know if you can breed a tri-coloured to a western hognose and if you can, what is the likely outcome of the hatchlings?
Is it similar to Royals where you have 50/50 chance of visual tri-coloured or are they classed as a seperate species and would I be better getting a female to go with him instead?
Apologies for ignorance, I'm fairly new to hognoses.
westerns and tri colours are totally separate species and I believe are incompatable with each other for breeding purposes westerns are from North America wheras tricolours are from south america very much parallel evolution
I wouldn't be suprised if they could breed with each other, after all corns can breed with kings and burmese pythons can breed with royals etc. But you would be left with hybrids. That then may cause a problem if you intend to sell them as you would have to state that they are hybrids and therefore they may not sell at all and you'll be left with several hatchlings that you may have to care for for the rest of their lives. In my opinion you would be better off getting another hoggie of the same species to pair up.
They are not just two different species, they are two different genera. The python hybrids are very hard to produce, and they are different species of teh same genus. The corn/rat/king/pit crosses all work because they are very closely aligned with each other in evolutionary history. Tri colours are Lystrophis, westerns are Heterodon. They will not breed together.
Tri-color hognose x western hognose
Posted - 26/03/2009 : 19:47:31
